skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple has also pledged "thermonuclear war" to "destroy Android"

In fairness, this was a comment made by Steve Jobs. Apple never made such a pledge and Steve Jobs is no longer at Apple.
I'm waiting eagerly for the Literate CoffeeScript support to land.

My main concern with it is that it forces you to write the document in the same order you want the code to be extracted, which may not be the best order for explaining things. That is why classic Literate Programming tools like noweb[1] allow you to name the chunks of code and then arrange them into the generated files as you wish. You can see an example of this in action when I'm assembling noweb.php[2].

Also, agreed on the point that not every piece of example code is suitable for running as a test, so you'd optimally want some sort of annotation for that. Github-flavored Markdown[3] has the code block fencing syntax that would allow metadata like this. Something like:

```coffeescript
# Just a regular, non-testable example
```

```coffeescript;test
# Example that is also a test
```

Actually, this same approach could be used for working with named chunks like noweb does.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noweb

2: https://github.com/bergie/noweb.php/blob/master/README.txt#L...

3: http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
The Japanese layout version of the HHKB looks really nice: http://www.pfu.co.jp/hhkeyboard/lineup/pdkb420w.html
Not sure where you can buy one though.

Edit:
Looking at it again, some of the programming related symbol keys are in slightly strange positions and would require some relearning. Plus the right shift is tiny.
"How exactly can #3 not be accomplished on Brand X's website?"

I think the whole point is, if charmin posts a new coupon on their website -- only normal visitors will see it.

Charmin posts a new coupon on Facebook and 300k people instantly see it.
#1 can be solved with URL hash / fragments, which link to anchors within the page. If the user has JavaScript enabled you can even automatically update the fragment as they scroll.
> Has anyone tried remapping a delete key to where the Caps Lock key is found?

The Colemak keyboard layout does that.
> the past 100 years included two world wars, and countless others - costing the lives of countless millions. If we continue the historical trend - this century will see at least a billion killed in wars.

You could just as easily say we had two world wars start within 30 years of each other in the early 1900's but it's been over 70 years since the last one started. If we continue the historical trend, this century will see no more than a few million killed in wars. You can always cherry-pick. Look up Steven Pinker, who is convinced that global violence is the lowest it's ever been...

> not with our current capitalist system, which uses technology to transfer more wealth from the poor to the rich.

There's an enormous growing middle class in Asia and Africa that begs to differ. Some think the rising global demand for oil will lead to collapse; I don't, but the main reason that demand is rising so much is because hundreds of millions around the world are now rich enough to own cars.
It was interesting listening to a fairly liberal guest on Bloomberg/Charlie Rose the other day, who claimed the search for "comprehensive" immigration reform was the biggest enemy of high-skill immigration reform right now.

Essentially everyone agrees on easier and longer (to permanent) visas for future or currently-legal but temporary visa entrepreneurs, high skill immigrants (for various definitions), etc. There isn't a clear consensus on how to handle pre-existing other immigrants, or future low-skill immigrants. There are also weird corner cases caused by long-term illegal/undocumented presence by children, which is what the DREAM act is supposed to address -- a child who was brought here shortly after birth, who grew up a US citizen, graduated high school, college, etc., really doesn't seem the same as an adult who recently and of his own free will crossed the border.

Part of it is racial/racism, but a lot of it is economics; trying to paint enemies of mass unskilled immigration or immigration amnesty as just racists is doing everyone a disservice. But it's also undeniable that the high-skill immigrants with problems are generally from India and China (where the H1B system is most broken due to nationwide quotas) and from other parts of Asia, Europe, etc., and the illegal/low skill immigrants are largely from Mexico, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries.

There is also some confusion about credentials vs. actual skills, too -- I'd rather bring Bill Gates in than most people with BA's from diploma mills or even legitimate PhDs.

The problem with comprehensive reform (as championed by the democrats and Obama) is that it's all or nothing, vs. incrementally solving each class. The proponents of comprehensive believe (probably rightly) that solving the most obvious and pressing problem (the 1 million or so skilled immigrants who are all currently legal) will take away the drive to solve the 12 million unskilled/illegal immigrants already here, or the many million who would immigrate without skills if it were easy and open. It would also quite possibly lead to a more restrictive regime for the unskilled vs. skilled.

Ultimately we seem to be solving the immigration problem by destroying the US economy (outside high tech and government, neither of which employs a lot of illegals), thus depressing wages and job opportunities for illegal/unskilled immigrants, while mexico continues to develop its economy -- it makes more sense to work there legally for 10% the cost of living and 30% the wage in many cases.
>What is the problem with arbitration?

The problem is that the company pays for the arbitor, who is usually an independent contractor hired on a per-arbitration basis. The arbitor is ecnomically pressured to side with the company, because siding against the company is likely not to result in repeat business. This effect is well-established and has been documented (I'll come back and post a reply with sources if I have the time).

Jury trials are a bad idea when the jury can't relate to the victim. Getting a fair jury is almost impossible in a sexual harassment case.

Getting a fair jury is not only possible, it's almost impossible not to get a fair jury for a civil trial. Sexual mores and attitudes have changed significantly over the past several decades, to the point where sexual harassment is no longer perceived as acceptable in the general workplace by either gender.

Note that in male-centric fields (sports, programming, etc.) attitudes toward sexual harassment have not changed as much as they have in more gender-balanced fields. This skewed perspective on sexual harassment has made more than a few plaintiff's lawyers quite wealthy.
when you are asked if you've ever been involved in a lawsuit, the reasonable assumption that the person is interested in knowing of your involvement in lawsuits, not if you are capable of picking and choosing a single lawsuit and describing it. Reading it any other way is so ridiculous that you have to be kidding.
> Pre-Emptive Scaling

Man, this one a thousand times over. I shudder when I think of all the work that could have been saved if these premature optimizations had never been made (I wrote a blog post on 500m row tables in MySQL about this). A little dose of YAGNI would go a long way to many startups. Also, re: Twitter and Tumblr's scaling problems: they didn't fail because of sporadic downtime. They fixed the actual problems/bottlenecks when they encountered them, and went on.
It's got a good web browser, good media playback, good apps and games, and good display. The camera isn't crappy either IMO.
Mother sells baby to buy mobile phone, jeans
Not surprising , They should choose mobile instead of web and also very less people interested to talk strangers if its not a dating site.
The screenshot was taken in the middle of the day (eastern time). The repository was already a couple months old by that time, though, so it's not like news hadn't traveled across the country yet.
Not fully related to this article but inline with the comments what I am reading.

I am always amazed at the different kinds of programs and rules introduced by USA for giving permanency to illegal immigrants where as people moving/moved legally (H1b/L1b etc) have to wait forever(like 10 years and still waiting) to get that status.People on H1B/L1B can not start a side business and these are the tech people(mostly) who can add lots of value to the existing market.
Does the cost of mining one BTC influence the price of one BTC?

The opposite. The exchange rate determines how many miners are willing to compete for each mined BTC. You can see that difficulty tends to increase a few weeks after the price increases (keep in mind that difficulty has a 1-2 week delay built in). http://bitcoinx.com/charts/chart_large_lin.png
You picked some really strange examples if you want to show that Microsoft follows the EEE pattern.

DirectX was made to kill off OpenGL. - DirectX was never compatible with OpenGL. It was created to provide a Windows-95 replacement for WinG which was being deprecated. OpenGL wasn't even originally intended for gaming, which is why it had software emulation for missing hardware features.

C# was made to kill off Java and keep software running on Windows. - C# was also never compatible with Java. Calling it an extension of Java is like calling Ruby an extension of Perl. C# was created to fill a gaping hole in the Windows development world: building native apps in a modern language. Java is ill-suited to building applications that feel native on Windows. It doesn't have easy interop, the UI looks wrong, and it requires installing a huge JRE. On top of that, Java progress at the language level was pretty stagnant. Lambdas, delegates, generics? Sun wasn't interested in any significant new features until C# appeared.

Microsoft killed of Netscape and a decade later IE6 isn't completely dead. Can't argue that one.
So far my previous comment and parent have received in total 8 downvotes.

Were my comments:
1) derogatory or offensive?
2) factually incorrect?
3) off topic and/or did not add to the conversation?
4) without any meaningful content. Ex: "Yes!", "Nice post!", "LOL!", etc?

Really? Really?? What is f..ing wrong with you people?
This blog post is essential reading for Python developers who see doctest.js and think "ew, doctest": http://blog.ianbicking.org/2012/10/02/why-doctest-js-is-bett...
DayZ creator says the game made him "horrendously cruel"
Square Directory
Getting increasingly more tired of sites that will only allow you to login with Facebook.
Can someone who knows a bit more about this idea chime in on if it's really plausible? A multi-story building in NYC with an elevator for 1.5MM?

Do they already own the land or something? It sounds like at least one of the partners already runs a hacker space so I assume they know what they're doing, but it sounds wildly implausible to me. The typos and errors on the page don't exactly inspire confidence either =P
I wouldn't want to start a company in Germany, but I wouldn't mind working there. I like Berlin though I would hate to help pay the bailout money for Greece.
If the author searched for John Hancock Center on Bing (which is the actual name, not the John Hancock Building), he would have not only got the right building, but he would have gotten Venue Maps for the inside of the building.

As someone else noted... he doens't use the term "John Hancock Building" or "John Hancock Center" consistently, which you can see from the screenshots.

He used "Building" for Bing and Mapquest (neither found it). He uses the term "Center" for Waze, Google, and Nokia (they all found it).

I'd suggest the author use the same search term for all tests if he wants to draw reasonable conclusions.
>it's best for everyone if the secrets remain secret.

Good old security through obscurity.
when I absolutely must be bothered to use braces at all "one true brace" is the ONLY way to roll :-)

Or in this case just use coffeescript and rejoice.
Of course it matters. Buy an Android or Microsoft phone; leave iOS behind. There's plenty of choice. If you don't like Apple's practices, buy from the competition. If you don't like Microsoft's monopoly, you'll find that it's a lot harder to ignore them. Many software companies only have Windows version because that's 90% of the market.
IANAL

> Is a few pieces of a copyrighted file still copyrighted? How many chunks do you need to have before you are actually infringing anything?

Probably yes, by connecting to that particular swarm that is sharing "Piratesofthecarribean12.avi" you are showing intent to download that file. The onus would most likely be on you to persuade the court that you had some other reason for connecting.

What possible reason could you have for downloading a few kb of a 1GB file other than to get the whole thing?

Remember this is civil law , not criminal law so the burden of proof on the people suing you is somewhat lower.

> What if it's encrypted?

That the transfer was encrypted doesn't really mean much, the way these people would catch you is to join the swarm themselves and send pieces of the file to others. So essentially they are the ones doing the encrypting so will know what the data was before encryption.

> How do you prove what a torrent says in its title is actually what it contains?

I assume they will just connect to the swarm, download the file themselves to verify it's contents and then serve pieces of that out to others. So they will know exactly what is being transmitted.

> How do you prove that a download was willful?

Again, I imagine the onus would be on your to suggest another reason such as someone broke into your wifi etc. Whether you have absolute responsibility for what happens on your internet connection appears to be a grey area however.

> What if individual files in an overall torrent are non infringing?

I don't imagine it would matter, they would be more concerned with the parts that were infringing.
Looks great and includes tracking/sign-up perfect! Thanks.
Netbot: An App.net Client with Personality
Agree with first point: healthcare access to all = job churn = more entrepreneurship
App asks me push anonymous requests to my friends..err No
Why the hell is the App Store a market?
jashkenas touches on it, but here's my rule of thumb for doctests:

Test your documentation, but tests aren't documentation.

In other words, it's great practice to ensure that code snippets inside your documentation execute correctly. Your primary benefit is that your documentation is correct, complete and up to date. Any testing benefit is purely secondary; you need a complete test suite regardless. You can use a doctest framework to create this test suite for convenience, but recognize that your doctests are going to be either illustrative or complete, but cannot be both.

Examples:

Here's a tutorial written in git comments so that each step is fully executable: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/agility

Here's a manual page written in rubydoctest: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/manual/scopes
When companies write apps in Objective-C for the Mac or iOS platforms, they are going to pretty much stay on the Apple platforms. Those apps, for the most part, aren't ported to the Windows and Linux (please skip the GCC discussion, it's not a 100% solution). Fortune 500 companies and commercial companies are locking consumers into Apple. There are thousands of Objective-C, Apple only apps.
I also arranged a 10th anniversary party and I had no swag to give out. Two weeks later, a box of 15 or so anniversary shirts showed up. I tracked a few attendees down, but most of the shirts remain in a box that follows me around as I move.

Which is to say, I'd be happy to provide a shirt. I've been wondering what to do with them. I've been thinking about setting up an auction and giving the proceeds to the EFF...
Why can't you just start a Delaware C-Corp and build it out from Berlin?
It is true that the taller candidate typically wins elections. It wouldn't surprise me if there were a significant correlation between hair and votes.

Eisenhower is probably the closest we've come to a bald president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EisenhowerChiefofStaffPort...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1675631,00....
Much better articulation of what I was trying to say.
I wonder if there are any stats or correlations between universal healthcare (or something similar) and entrepreneurship. It's supposed to increase job churn, which is awesome for the economy, and you'd think more people would start their own businesses if saving their healthcare wasn't a consideration.

I know personally that I started my own business specifically because I was allowed to stay on my parents healthcare until I'm 25(26? Shit I should figure that out) so even with $5k in savings, I was like why not?
The exact requirement is "bachelors degree or equivalent ". So if you have at least 5+ years of work experience in the specific field/employer, you might be able to get it. But yes, it is extremely tough to prove the *equivalent" part because it can mean anything.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I was just thinking the same thing last week, wondering why I hate pagination when I used to like it. I realized it's the time it takes to load, which is probably due to the ads. I'm on a broadband cable connection, and some of the sites take 5-10 seconds to load the next page. One popular site a few days ago took 15 seconds to load the next page. Maybe I have a neighbor hogging cable bandwidth, but still the pages with 3rd party ads are noticeably worse.
What do you mean? If you want to know what it's like to get a life sentence in prison or get funded on Shark Tank, how would you get this information?
Right now I just bookmark its github/website as I find them. Not exactly the most efficient way to do things, but it does the job for now.
A 1939 Map of Physics
Thanks! I was losing sleep trying to figure out when to break the news about Euler's method. I figured this article would be best because the actual physics code is pretty straightforward, so that left some room to talk about integration techniques.
That's a massive over-simplification of my insatiable call to be a builder, but without the security of health insurance coverage I might not have done it straight out of college.
O visa is for exceptional ability and they really mean exceptional. So who qualifies for those ? people with scientific researches, publications, inventions etc. Not the average hacker.
On Open Source Cloud Adoption
Wiki actually has the complete opposite theory, baldness seems to convey a maturing and calming instead of power and dominance.

"One theory, advanced by Muscarella and Cunningham, suggests baldness came about in males through sexual selection as an enhanced signal of aging and social maturity, whereby aggression and risk-taking decrease and nurturing behaviours increase."

"A study done among South Koreans has shown most people rate balding men as less attractive, if these results generalize to other cultures, any mating benefit must target purely maternal instincts."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenic_alopecia

So maybe it's because you're ugly but domestic and perceived to be no real threat. Or maybe human nature is more then just animal instinct. Maybe I just wanted to go nananana and call you ugly while I ran my fingers through my head of hair. Maybe it's all of these things.
Increase in allergies is from losing touch with 'old friends'
Dealing With Change
Mug shot websites proliferate, at high expense to those on them
Various forms of program analysis/verification. Some examples of applications where SMT is heavily used are automated theorem provers, symbolic execution engines, model checking tools.
From the video to me it looks more like "Hey wouldn't it be cool to get all the cool thing you could ever want in one place? Sure! Let's build it! But we need money! No worries let's just start one of those fundraising things where you say all the cool things could ever get in a video and people throw money to you! I'd say we need about 1.5m! Yhea! Let's do it!"
then a reasoned thing as it should be...
On the contrary, it is quite difficult, the jury is expected to deliberate. If you look at how Samsung's lawyers have made their argument, they focus on how things "outside" the trial made it into the the jury deliberation room. This is a common theme in successful tampering arguments, that it is an external influence that is extra-judicial which has tainted the jury deliberation.

So the argument Samsung makes is that the Jury foreman manipulated the process with intent and premeditation and that tainted the process. They are trying to show that by showing that the foreman had a grudge (motive), and made an opportunity (perjured themselves during the voir dire) so he brought this extra-judicial plan into the courtroom and sprang it on an unsuspecting defendant (Samsung). Just being incompetent in following the judges instructions does not rise to the level of tampering or jury misconduct.

I find it amazing this guy (the foreman) talks to the press, clearly he loves the limelight, but man he isn't doing himself any favors.
Also that is possibly the worst job page if you want to attract talent that isn't used to living in Berlin and/or don't know urge.io (hint you have to sell the candidate on the idea).
Not in Jobs case. He had absolutely nothing good to say about market research. He was a strong believer in the adage that if you asked what people wanted out of a car back in 1900 they'd just describe a better horse.

Gates on the other hand was a big believer in market research and focus groups. I think that's why he was so into pen computing. He was unable to get past the windowing, desktop, pointing device paradigm.
I think a lot of people appreciate the move MS made while simultaneously condemning them for their casual appropriation of a term having a well-established meaning. They've updated the blog post in the meantime, so this is a non-issue.

Resorting to ad-hominems does nothing to strengthen your argument, btw.
There really are bad guys and they want you to submit to their will. Pretending it isn't so only helps them.
Siri can launch apps, though sadly the interaction with those apps pretty much stops there.
Breakfast as a Service
Have any of you ever found a viable, profitable startup idea by just analyzing markets or have all of them come from passion and experience?
Seeing this (supporting over 10 million hits a day on an Amazon EC2 micro instance), it makes less and less sense to host a site entirely on Amazon S3.
You missed the part where it would be made with containers. I assume they do not know what they are doing.
Semi-long time /. reader here -- six digit UID but just barely. If I had known it would have conferred bragging rights I would have signed up a week or two earlier.

Slashdot was absolutely the best community from the late 90s up through maybe 2005 or '06. I learned so much from both the news articles and the subsequent discussion. Still have never found a better comments section than what Slashdot had then, though I keep searching.
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
Using ØMQ to Run a Stock Exchange
The other thing you might want to watch out for is network caps. Usually on a small instance, RackSpace imposes some sort of insanely low network caps (I think something like 30mbps).
Not sure about the US, but in the UK and elsewhere in europe laws are being passed to force ISPs to keep these logs for some minimum period.
Out of these, Vin Diesel is the only one who has full head of hair but still shaves it. The rest do it because they are all bald. Just my observation :)
A lot less than the shaving cream costs.
How do bitcoins represent debt?
Not quite. The visualizations are great, but the ability to rewind and replay time is the critical piece here. How many times have you had to stop and restart debugging because you missed something critical?